Ratings for the final round of The Open Championship fall 26% year-on-year

It turned out that the 151st Open Championship, where Brian Harman (USA) won his first major title, did not generate much attention in terms of viewership ratings.
which counts the number of viewers of sports events, the number of viewers who watched the final round of the Open Championship on NBC TV on the 23rd (local time) was about 3,352,000. The company said, “Comparing last year’s final round with 4,551,000 viewers, the viewership decreased by 26%.”
It recorded the lowest ratings since the 2015 tournament won by Jack Johnson (USA).
If PGA Tour star Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), who tied for the lead until the third round last year, lost to Cameron Smith (Australia) on the last day, the absence of the drama is cited as the reason for the drop in ratings.
This is why the U.S. Open Championship is not as popular as the Masters or the U.S. Open. There were 12.058 million viewers who watched the Masters final held in April this year. More than three times as many golf fans watched as John Lam (Spain) beat Brooks Koepka (USA) to win, which was the Masters' highest ratings in the past five years.
The U.S. Open, where Wyndham Clark (U.S.) topped the list, also averaged 8.8 million viewers on the last day, and the PGA Championship, which was less popular than the Masters and the U.S. Open, averaged 4.5 million viewers this year.
Unlike the three major tournaments, the fact that The Open will be held in the UK, not the US, is another reason for the low. The Masters ends at 7 p.m. on Sunday, U.S. prime time. The Open ended at 2 p.m. U.S. time on Sunday.
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